We live in a highly competitive world - and we Indians have to struggle to catch up. So modesty is necessary, even… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Modesty is not possible in performance in the Caribbean - and that's wonderful. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I'll tell you something about Glenn McGrath - he was a much better bowler than me. This is not false modesty. — James Anderson Copy Share Image
When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
There's nothing sweeter than a real friend: Not only is he prompt to lend— An angler delicate, he fishes The very deepest… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Modesty is great, and quietness is nice, but sometimes it's much more fun to be decadent. — Robin Standefer Copy Share Image
Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that… — John Todd Copy Share Image
Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh. — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
Be not too great a niggard in the commendations of him that professes thy own quality: if he deserve thy praise, thou… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
